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Passport Health Plan Nurse, Marilyn Berwick, named as the Hospice and Palliative Care Registered Nurse of the Year for 2008

Louisville, KY – University Health Care, Inc. dba Passport Health Plan announced today that The National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative Nurses will award its prestigious 2008 Registered Nurse of the Year award to Passport Health Plan’s Special Needs Case Manager, Ms. Marilyn Berwick, RN, BSN, CCM, CHPN®,  on January 31, 2008.

Based upon her extraordinary work with the University of Louisville, Ms. Berwick is the first managed health care nurse to win the annual Award.  The Award will be presented to Ms. Berwick during the annual Certification Recognition Luncheon on Thursday, January 31, 2008 in Tampa, Florida.  The annual CHPN® of the Year Award recognizes the work of all end-of-life care nurses from across the country.  All nominations are reviewed and the recipient is selected by the Awards Selection Committee of NBCHPN®.  The selected individual personifies excellence in the professional practice of end-of-life nursing, has made contributions in at least one of the following areas of end-of-life care:  clinical practice, education or research and provides leadership through mentorship of others in end-of-life care.  Marilyn Berwick, CHPN® was nominated for the 2008 CHPN® of the Year Award by Barbara Head, Ph.D, RN, CHPN®, ACSW, Research Director for the Interdisciplinary Program for Palliative Care and Chronic Illness.

University Health Care, Inc., dba Passport Health Plan, provides Medicaid managed care services for over 140,000 members in Jefferson and the 15 surrounding counties.  The counties of service include Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll, Grayson, Hardin, Henry, Jefferson, Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, Trimble, and Washington.  In 2006, U.S.News & World Report/NCQA “America’s Best Health Plans 2006” recognized Passport Health Plan as one of the top 25 Medicaid health plans in America for the second year in a row and the only Medicaid health plan in Region 4 to achieve the “America’s Best Health Plan” badge.  Region 4 includes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and Kentucky as cited in the NCQA Accreditation Benchmarks.   University Health Care, Inc. dba Passport Health Plan is sponsored by the University of Louisville Medical School Practice Association, University of Louisville Hospital, Jewish and St. Mary’s Healthcare, Norton Healthcare, and the Louisville/Jefferson County Primary Care Association, which includes Jefferson County Health Department and Louisville's two federally qualified health centers, Family Health Centers and Park DuValle.

University Health Care, Inc. contracts with AmeriHealth Mercy Health Plan for administrative services.  AmeriHealth Mercy and its affiliates comprise the largest family of Medicaid managed care plans in the United States, touching the lives of over two million members nationwide. AmeriHealth Mercy specializes in providing management care services and management for publicly funded programs, with special expertise in Medicaid, Medicare and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP). For more information, please visit www.AmeriHealthMercy.com.

 
 
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